A New Academic Year

New title: "Don't Google "Populace Management" or your computer will crash"

Original title: "Like Pigs for the Slaughter?" is one of two articles featured in the Portland Oregon State Hospital (POSH) Patient Newsletter, written while I was a psychiatric patient in the Spring of 2011. As I have written elsewhere, I'm not embarrassed to admit that I was locked up by the 'Powers that Be', more or less for being a Revolutionist. I'm more embarrassed for the doctors and other practitioners writing prescriptions as dictated by agencies and entities unknown, following criteria that were collected and designated "diagnoses" by god-knows-WHO. Certainly I am embarrassed for the people that want me to think I was hallucinating my life experiences for the past 4 years because they be incriminated as f*^$. Instead, I continue to risk freedom of movement against "bizarre delusions" and the state's right to lock me up for not behaving.

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“Everyone gains weight here,” a Mental Health Technician (MHT) told me, upon my second weigh-in at POSH (the acronym is quite ironic for a mental hospital). During my Psychiatry training, one of my mentors from Stanford told me that “all psych drugs cause weight gain.” Most of them also cause high cholesterol and diabetes. Theoretically, the benefit in controlling symptoms outweighs these “side effects” that are criminally minimized during most "Informed Consent" disclosures by prescribers.

In 2009, I worked for Central City Concern’s Old Town Clinic, through a program sponsored by a health insurance company to help control costs by coordinating preventative health care. In my training materials that described the program, I read that we were dealing with population-level health management. Between the lines, it appeared to read, “Populace Management.” This seemed especially suspicious to me, as the company is a Medicare and Medicaid third-party payer funding care for the indigent who do not contribute to society in traditional employment terms – who rely upon government assistance for everything from food and housing to very expensive medications. I was initially impressed with Oregon for taking care of its needy people. After some time observing clinic operations, I became suspicious about what “Populace Management” really meant and wondered, "what is the benefit of keeping all of these people on meds?"

Sometimes, when I drink coffee, I think about the resources involved in getting the tasty beverage into the toilet, with my body as the “middle man.” I get a small caffeine-buzz and sensory pleasure from the warm creamy beverage by working my kidneys, which seems reasonable in the moment and the overall economic exchange benefits others in the commodity market in the line of entrepreneurs and workers between me and the soil. From my expensive medical education, I learned that very few medications actually extend life span and the cost:benefit ratio of dollars and side effects to symptom control is questionable, as many drugs are barely more effective than placebo (the power of belief of treatment). So, are we just churning chemicals and scientific education into dollars, using human bodies, as the coffee industry turns sun, soil and water into urine, ultimately?

If tobacco cigarettes were eliminated, the cost to Medicare of the extra years of life span would be $283 billion, according to an article by the Associated Press published in January 2011. The issues of over-population versus the Earth’s resources have been discussed for decades. Would it really be shocking to find that there are interests operating in the world to limit human life spans?

As an idealistic person who originally set out in life to be a healer, I was shocked to learn all these things. In a purely logical frame of mind, I understand the resources issues and need for public safety in controlling violent behavior, but I also feel angry and sad that people are unknowingly fed food and medications that ultimately shorten their life spans when they have placed their trust in the ethics of the health care system and government organizations that control the food supply and pharmaceuticals.

In psychiatric institutions throughout the country (I hear it isn't the same globally as in the US) many people are forced to take medications that cause terrible life-shortening disease (diabetes) or irreversible neurological disease (tardive dyskinesia) and have only questionable benefit towards behavior/mood management. A huge percentage of people are still “hallucinating” on all of these “antipsychotic” medications because the psychic phenomena they perceive are not just electrochemical malfunctions in the brain. My first article deals with some of my ideas about the consciousness spectrum and psychotic disorders. I will see about getting it available, as I only have the printed article.

I think most "patients" that get “better” and are allowed to discharge from the hospital have just learned that "the first rule of Fight Club is you don’t talk about Fight Club." NASA, a USA government organization, had sufficient evidence of telepathy going back to 1963 that they poured millions of dollars into researching the galactic-potential of such communication abilities. But the people behind "Cardinal Criteria" in the Diagnostic manual for psychiatry (Populace management) have listed "telepathy" as a buzz-word for a "bizarre delusion" as defines “schizophrenia” because with the ability to restrict people's basic freewill to speak or move with the tools of mechanical and chemical restraint used everyday in psych-wards throughout the country, anyone can be locked-up if they are psychically connected and don’t behave.

I have "heard" or otherwise perceived many things, psychically (as featured all over the internet). Some things I experience through other senses gets confirmed as Chrystally clear as I can imagine physical manifestation of telepathic communication to be. At other times, events seem to rearrange on the linear timeline, as fits my understanding of the multidimensional nature of reality and fluid timeline. But these concepts apparently haven't been espoused by enough people in our culture to be accepted as not-psychotic.

I wonder at what point all the conscious people will stop acting like they're crazy and we have a seamless society at last, because I think that with radical honesty, as comes with telepathic connections, people will evolve and be better souls in community and existence will be better than the manipulations currently going on around the psychic-sphere being variably controlled and not justly.

I have heard that if I would just shut up and stop talking about the controversial points I make in random conversations about the military and media and pharmaceutical industries and WHOever, I would be rewarded with fame and fortune. I would get to join the section of society that decided to just live and be happy with the experiences they get to have for not rocking the boat, but I don't seem to be too good at keeping my thoughts to myself.